Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-10-07

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ghosts To such u leader, all laughter is !
like the cracking Of thorns beneath pot
and if you should be so i'll advised as t. !
laugh in Mr.. Brudenel's presence he would
become that pot and presently boil over
As for Lady Augusta his second wife: -
There is n certain type OF wife, which |
will / fear, with the march of woman's
education, and the cultiv alton of her crit
cal faculty, grow rapidly rarcr until it
finally becomes extinct. ] mean the wife
who ardently adopts her husbands creed, !
convictions dogmas, hobbies, and Party,
rs her own, and enters into the very inner
spirit of that creed or Party. Thus, there
is no person in the world who more pro-
foundly believes the doctrine of the High
Church than the wife-if she be of this type
of the Ritulistic Clergyman there is no
person more profoundly agitated about the
future state of her own soul than the wife
of the Calvinist; there is no ono who more
honestly believes in the Connection than the
wife of the minister. Ii the husband be
man of science the wife will breathe the
atmosphere .of science, and live wholly in
the scientific world; if lie be an artist, she
will live among the studios and talk of art
if he be musician, she will talk and think
of music all her life if he be a shopkecper
q
is it must be admitted u universal ten
dency to sink the shop.
Lady Augusta belonged to this tyr,e.
She felt no doubts-she had no hesitations
" | have seen too much, " she sai1 =" to adj
NIT of any room for doubt After all my
dcars, she added, d" one is possessed of eyes
and of the reasoning faculty OH we are
on the verge Of n new revelation. | look
for it daily. | expect the Prophet; he may
come at any day or at any moment, and
then obi then-there will begin for the
world in my drawing room n new Age of
Faith which will restore happiness for ever
to suffering humanity"
The days passed and the looked for Pro
phet came not
Lady Augusta, a handsome woman still,
and a grande dame de par 10 monde was
now thirty-tivc. She could therefore no
longer welcome that Prophet in her youth
Now if anything wonderful is to happen to Il
woman in her lifetime, She would naturally
prefer it to happen in the time of her youth
and beauty 1t would be delightful to he
come the friend in pure Platonc bonds
of a Prophet, to make his earthly existence
smooth and happy for him; to be young
with him and to grow Old with him But
he came not; Gnl Lady Augustus youth
took to itself wings aud few away
Perhaps, however, the Prophet could be
venerable sage Meantime, i've and thirty
is not old for Queen of any cause Lady
Augusta was the undoubted Queen of the
Spirituaists, and she maintained her court
WIN graclouShesS anu hospitality truly
a-hlTaple
10 De taken up by Lady Augusta was to
secure Puohc attention. every mediun
! i'll. l.. 4.
mute straight LOT her draWlnS-room; her
name was PERFECTLY wen known IN Ne"
ork' 81 petersburg, Farls, ana IN every
splfliuailslic cehIre. no doubt the occult
philosophers lahatlhas ana Adept OF lhlbct
regard her WIN favor, though they nave
never yet Vlsltei her. She had her circle
Oh courJlerS as wen as her continual stream
OF ever MeW ana richly gifted mediums who
wanted chehtaie AMI an income; round
I her We're Sather"d All those thinkers who
are perpetually engaged IN trying to look
oaAinu the Ne!I.
heiiild tne ven We, VINO lVe IN tins
9reat 'rowded ant NH and struggle and toll
daily WITH our fellow ants, bearing our bur
dens ana HylnS IN the present, rejoicing
IN the sunshine oil the moment, satisfied
/ WIN me- cohtehteu II we DO not suffer
pilh' careless ior tht most part OF what
may happen "heh inns ne Is done, we mum
Dir' common loiES, say, hardly Know any
thlhS Oh Uhe "orlu Whlch thlnks OF nothing
put 70 PIy pehluu Inc ven 10 Us IL Is u
S'e", D'"ch pa'h oi cloua' FihS al rounu
US WACh ever way We look III Is as the
olach spaces between the stars We cannot
iooh loh@ upon II "lth'ut reellng OF the
Dram sometimes 10 those VINO think OF
~ IL seems 90 ron toward Us, sometimes
10 roll back NIUE way; whenever we